Antonio Moral
Antonio Moral Rubio was born in 1956 in Puebla de Almenara (Province of Cuenca, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain). He founded the prestigious Scherzo Music Magazine in 1985, of which he was its first Director until 2001. He was also Managing Director of the Scherzo Foundation from 2001 to 2005. From 1986 to 2005 he organized the concerts promoted by Scherzo, creating and leading artistically the Ciclo de Grandes Intérpretes (Piano Master Series) at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid and the Ciclo de Jóvenes Intérpretes (Young Piano Talents, 2002–2005). In 1988 he founded the Mozart Festival of Madrid, which he directed until its end in 1997. In 1998 he was commissioned by the City Hall of La Coruña (Spain) to create another Mozart Festival, which he directed until 2002, succeeded by Alberto Zedda.
In 1990 he was commissioned to design and start the Music Programme of Caja Madrid Foundation, institution of which he was Music and Artistic Counselor until August 2005. Here, apart from coordinating and organizing around 200 concerts a year, he was the Artistic Director of the Ciclo Sinfónico (Symphonic Series, 1991–1994) and of two of the most successful series in Madrid: the Liceo de Cámara (1992–2005, and from 2014 as a part of the CNDM Series), and the internationally renowned Ciclo de Lied, held from 1994 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, of which he continues to be his Artistic Director 25 years after its creation. From 2001 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca Festival.
From September 2005 to August 2010 he was Artistic Director of Madrid’s Teatro Real, succeeded by Gerard Mortier. During this period at the Teatro Real were programmed a total of 81 different titles, of which 46 were new in Madrid. There were 37 new productions, with 10 premieres in Spain and three world premieres. The average of annual shows was 214, with 95% occupancy in the last three seasons, reaching the record figures of 232 shows in the 2008/09 season with a total of 301,357 spectators. In the 2007/08 season, the Teatro Real reached the highest number of subscribers in its history, totaling 28,110. During his stage various productions and artists received prestigious awards for their work at the Teatro Real.
He participates regularly in pedagogical activities with several Spanish universities, as a lecturer in Cultural Management Master Degrees and in many other national and international music forums. In August 2013 he was invited by the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth to give a lecture on “Die moderne Wagner Rezeption” at the Bayreuth Festival, on the occasion of the 200 anniversary of Richard Wagner.
From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the International Committee of the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition in Milán (Italy), created by Maurizio Pollini, Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio. From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the permanent jury of the prestigious Operalia competition, leaded by tenor Plácido Domingo. In 2015 Christian Zacharias invited him to be a member of the jury of the XXVI Clara Haskil International Piano Competition of Vevey (Switzerland), to which he returned as a jury member in the 2017 edition. In 2016 he was a jury member of the first Mozart Competition of Granada (Spain), invited by Andrea Marcon. Since 2011 until this year, he has been part In six editions of the jury of the prestigious National Music Prize awarded annually by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
He has received several awards and honors, such as the recent appointment by the French Ministry of Culture as Officier des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic. He has also received in 2006 the Gold Medal of Cuenca City Council for his work leading the Festival of Religious Music of Cuenca. In 2017 he was awarded with the Prize of the Excelentia Foundation of Spain for his professional career and his special service to the Spanish Music.
In October 2010 he was commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to create and direct the new Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (Spanish National Centre for the Promotion of Music, CNDM), as a part of the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (National Institute for the Performing Arts and Music, INAEM), which deals amongst other activities with the Artistic Production of the National Auditorium of Music de Madrid (National Concert Hall). In these years the CNDM has become a Center of reference in Spain and Europe with the organization of an average of 300 concerts per season in 29 Spanish cities and 14 more in Europe, Middle East and America. Another of the main achievements was when the Auditorio Nacional de Música opened its doors -with great success- to other music as jazz or flamenco.
He has left after eight years, by his own decision, the leadership of the CNDM in October, 2018. He has founded two new cyles Círculo de Cámara and Beethoven Actual in the renowned and historic Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid. Last summer he was responsible for the direction of the Music Program of the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) in Santander (Spain).
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